EARTHQUAKES · WARD AREA · US2000FPXP

Magnitude 2.8 3 km NW of Pecos, Texas

Thursday, June 28, 2018, 1:51:40 AM Central · 2018-06-28 06:51:40 UTC

A magnitude 2.8 earthquake 3 km NW of Pecos, Texas on June 28, 2018 at 1:51 AM Central, 5.0 km deep, in the Ward County area.

It is one of 58 M2+ events located within 10 km of this spot, 1 of them in the thirty days before it; the largest nearby was M3.0.

15 active injection or disposal wells sit within 10 km, the nearest 0.8 km away and operated by Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC; together they hold 316,400 barrels a day of permitted capacity.

M2.8: ML, reviewed
5.0: km deep · 16,405 ft
1: M2+ within 10 km, prior 30 days
58: M2+ within 10 km, all time
15: active injection wells within 10 km
709: permitted wells within 10 km

Location

Epicenter: 31.4449, -103.5143
County area: Ward County
On a map: Google Maps ↗
Catalog: USGS event page ↗

Around it in time and space

M2+ events within 10 km, nearest in time first.

When	Mag	Distance	Depth
Jun 27, 2018, 10:42 PM	2.5	4.4 km	7.1 km
Jul 13, 2018, 4:33 AM	2.9	6.9 km	5.0 km
Jul 13, 2018, 5:45 AM	2.7	9 km	2.9 km
May 10, 2018, 10:44 PM	2.4	9.7 km	5.0 km
Feb 2, 2019, 5:07 AM	2.6	5.4 km	2.4 km
Feb 15, 2019, 9:52 PM	2.3	3.7 km	5.0 km
Feb 16, 2019, 10:15 AM	2.1	3.4 km	5.0 km
Sep 29, 2017, 11:16 PM	2.0	3.7 km	5.0 km
Apr 10, 2019, 10:46 AM	2.1	2.1 km	5.9 km
Aug 30, 2017, 3:16 PM	2.2	7.5 km	1.8 km
Sep 28, 2019, 1:07 PM	2.3	6.5 km	5.0 km
Mar 17, 2017, 10:03 PM	3.0	7.8 km	3.5 km

Largest nearby on record: M3.0 on Jun 25, 2022.

Injection wells within 10 km

RRC UIC MASTER · ACTIVE PERMITS

Proximity is not attribution. The wells are listed because the question is always asked; whether any of them is connected to this event is for the RRC's seismic response review, not this page.

Well	Operator	UIC no.	Distance	Permitted, bbl/d	Injection zone, ft
Tarpon #1	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000116075	0.8 km	15,000	4,500–6,000
Central Reeves #2SW	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000108266	3.6 km	40,000	4,470–6,860
Preakness SWD #2	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000105946	3.9 km	40,000	4,500–7,500
Barstow SWD #2	M.A.C. Resources Inc.	000110480	4.7 km	20,000	6,600–7,100
Baptist Foundation #1D	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000048561	4.8 km	10,000	5,594–6,100
Reeves -43- #1	Reeves County SWD, LLC	000094453	5.6 km	12,000	4,339–5,510
Sham SWD #2SW	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000109562	5.6 km	25,000	4,530–7,640
Abram SWD #1	Terrain Water Solutions, LLC	000121190	5.7 km	20,000	4,600–7,600
Ani SWD #1	Jetta Operating Company, Inc.	000101944	6 km	20,000	8,000–9,150
Sbhes Pecos #1	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000115915	6.8 km	25,000	6,250–7,510
Layden C #9W	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000095491	7.7 km	5,000	4,779–5,080
Worsham -42- #2D	Jetta Operating Company, Inc.	000110501	7.7 km	30,000	6,800–8,550
North Pecos SWD #1	M.A.C. Resources Inc.	000108531	7.7 km	30,000	4,656–7,234
Layden C #8	Waterbridge Texas Operating LLC	000107854	7.8 km	14,400	4,772–5,171
Perkins -F- #2W	Jetta Operating Company, Inc.	000096240	7.8 km	10,000	4,700–5,974

Disposal in Ward County → · How disposal permits and volumes work →

About this data

Event us2000fpxp from the USGS earthquake catalog, located by the network its id names and refreshed daily. Nearby wells from the RRC UIC well master and permit coordinates; daily volumes from the TexNet injection reporting tool.

Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/earthquakes/tx/events/us2000fpxp, documented in the API reference.